Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking [Hardcover]

Michael Grieves (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 26, 2005

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the newest wave in productivity. This revolutionary approach is an outcome of lean thinking; however, PLM eliminates waste and efficiency across all aspects of a product's life--from design to deployment--not just in its manufacture. By using people, product information, processes, and technology to reduce wasted time, energy, and material across an organization and into the supply chain, PLM drives the next generation of lean thinking.

Now PLM pioneer Michael Grieves offers everyone from Six Sigma and lean practitioners to supply chain managers, product developers, and consultants a proven framework for adopting this information-driven approach. Product Lifecycle Management shows you how to greatly enhance your firm's productivity by integrating the efforts of your entire organization.

Most companies are seeing the returns of their efforts in lean methods diminishing, as the most fruitful applications have already been addressed. Here, Grieves reveals how PLM gives you an opportunity to make improvements both within and across functional areas in order to increase agility, optimize efficiency, and reduce costs across the board. He gives you the most comprehensive view of PLM available, fully outlining its characteristics, method, and tools and helping you assess your organizational readiness.

There's also proven examples from the field, where PLM is being widely adopted by leading companies, including General Motors, General Electric, and Dell, that are widely adopting the approach. You'll see how PLM has saved these companies billions in unnecessary costs and shaved as much as 60% off cycle times. With this book you'll learn how to:

• Develop and implement your PLM strategy to support your corporate objectives
• Engage all your employees in using information to eliminate waste
• Enable improved information flow
• Better organize and utilize your intellectual capital
• Foster an environment that drives PLM

Lean manufacturing can only take your organization so far. To bring your productivity to the next level and save remarkable amounts of time, money, and resources, Product Lifecycle Management is your one-stop, hands-on guide to implementing this powerful methodology.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The first guide to this revolutionary productivity-enhancing system

This groundbreaking book introduces the next evolution of lean thinking: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). PLM expert Michael Grieves shows how to roll out this integrated, information-driven approach across an entire company--to increase organizational agility, optimize efficiency and drastically reduce time-to-market.

Praise for Product Lifecycle Management

"The depth with which Michael Grieves explores PLM and the manner in which he describes its origin is exceptional.  As we see new markets emerging for PLM, the universe of possibilities is limitless.  This book should be considered a staple in business." --Tony Affuso, Chairman, CEO and President, UGS

"Michael Grieves has captured the "big idea" of PLM. Michael expertly explains how information and digital modeling can reduce cost, improve quality, and ignite innovation. 'Do you really understand the nature of information and your products?' Michael's book is a terrific source to expand your knowledge and begin the PLM journey!"  --Lorie Buckingham, Senior Vice President and CIO, Visteon Corporation  

"If you want to know precisely the proper way to use the product information in your company, this is the book to explain the whys and wherefores and the specific steps to complete that process.  Mike Grieves' book Product Lifecycle Management just raised the bar to a new level!"  --John Crary, CIO, Lear Corporation

"Product Lifecycle Management is an innovative book that will be highly useful tool when integrating all the business processes of a product's life cycle." --Mohan Tanniru, MIS Dept Head, University of Arizona

About the Author

Dr. Michael Grieves founded the Product Lifecycle Management Development Consortium, University of Michigan's College of Engineering and served as its Co-Director. He developed the first on-line Product Lifecycle Management Overview course for College's Center for Professional Development and organizes and chairs the annual University of Michigan AUTO^e IT Conference. Grieves also is affiliated with the University of Arizona's internationally ranked MIS Department. Grieves works with PLM users and suppliers to companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Toyota on PLM strategies and implementations. With 35 years industry experience, Grieves is a principal in the international management and IT consulting firm Core Strategies Inc., and serves on the boards of a number of technology companies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071452303
• ISBN-13: 978-0071452304
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Michael Grieves splits his time between the business and academic worlds. He is the author of "Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking" (McGraw-Hill, 2006). Dr Grieves lectures and consults worldwide on PLM. His next book, "Virtually Perfect: Driving Innovation and Lean through Product Lifecycle Management" will be published early next year.

Dr. Grieves consults with a number of international manufacturers, governmental organizations such as NASA and information technology providers on PLM-related issues and has given speeches world-wide at PLM, engineering, and manufacturing conferences.

Dr. Grieves has been a Co-Director of the Purdue PLM Center of Excellence and served as a Visiting Professor at the Purdue University College of Technology. Dr. Grieves is also affiliated with the Eller School of Business MIS Department at the University of Arizona, where he was designated Director - Industry Research for the MIS Department and Director, Information Technology Industry Research Center (ITIRC) at the University of Arizona. He served on the advisory board for the MIS department. Dr. Grieves is Chairman Emeritus of Oakland University's School of Business Board of Visitors.

He has taught in the United States, China, and Europe at the university senior undergraduate, and graduate school levels and has authored and taught executive education courses. Dr Grieves is a Professor at CIMBA University, Asolo, Italy with an appointment at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Grieves, an avid golfer, is a founder and Chairman of Interactive Frontiers, Inc., the world leader in golf and sport instructional software,

Dr. Grieves has over thirty years experience in the computer and data communications industry. He has been a senior executive at both Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial organizations during his career. He founded and took public a $100 million systems integration company and subsequently served as its audit and compensation committee chair after recruiting a new CEO. Dr. Grieves has substantial board experience, including serving on a subsidiary company of NTT Communications of Japan.

Dr. Grieves has an undergraduate degree in computer engineering (B.S.C.E.) from Michigan State University, a graduate degree in business (MBA) form Oakland University, and a doctorate in executive management in business (EDM) from Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Primer on PLM, February 21, 2006

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Spyder Lockhart (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking (Hardcover)

Grieves book on PLM is a fundamental primer on a subject basic to anyone involved devloping, marketing, buying and using a product. In other words, if your in business you should read this book. Importantly, his overview is comprehensive and provides a complete framework for understanding the scope and complexity of the practice in the modern manufacturing environment. The message is clear, you can't buy Product Lifecycle Management, you have to do Product Life Cycle Management. Whether your just beginning to look at PLM or are re-configuring your current capabilities, I would recomend everyone involved give this book a thorough read. I know my team will.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clearly the next step for collaborative management, July 13, 2006

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Marshall Toplansky (Irvine, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking (Hardcover)

I think that Dr. Grieves book presents a compelling next step in how companies AND their outsourced suppliers can collaborate over the entire lifetime of the customer relationship to insure that customers continue to get satisfaction from their products.

Think about it this way: If you are buying a car that you are going to own for 5 years, don't you want to make sure that 4 years in to that ownership experience, the company that makes the fuel injection system has told the dealer about its new, updated software system for improving mileage . . . so you can get the benefit from it?

Without a unified approach to sharing information across functions and across time, there is no way the car company, the outsourced supplier and the dealer could make that happen. That is the essential breakthrough of PLM thinking, and Dr. Grieves does a great job of explaining it.

There is a lot of value here for companies in any industry that is characterized by a global, interconnected supply chain and a rapidly changing product lifecycle.

Marshall Toplansky
CEO
Core Strategies, Inc.
Irvine, CA

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Future of Products, December 5, 2010

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This review is from: Product Lifecycle Management: Driving the Next Generation of Lean Thinking (Hardcover)

This book is the foremost primer on PLM. It defines PLM, providing the most comprehensive perspective of how to maximize your organization's capabilities and increase efficiencies through better use of people, product information, processes/practices, and technology. It also provides the framework and tools required to help you assess your organization's readiness for PLM.

It is apparent that Dr. Grieves has vast experience and knowledge of the PLM field as well as the issues facing global businesses. He draws from his personal experiences with a myriad of businesses in a wide array of industries to provide real world examples and share his views and insights into the organizational need for PLM implementation to remain globally competitive. This is a must read for those in the Manufacturing sector that are required to develop products that are globally competitive. And what products are not in today's global economy?

This thought provoking book will assist you in taking your organization to the next level.